Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 novel by Mildred D. Taylor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1977 Newbery Medal[1][2] awarded novel by Mildred D. Taylor. It is a part of her Logan family series, a sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees.
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Author | Mildred D. Taylor |
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Cover artist | Jerry Pinkney |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical fiction |
Publisher | Dial Press |
Publication date | 1976 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 288 |
ISBN | 0-590-98207-9 |
Preceded by | Song of the Trees |
Followed by | Let the Circle Be Unbroken |
The novel is the first book in the Logan family saga, which includes four sequels (Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), The Road to Memphis (1992), The Gold Cadillac (1987), and All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (2020)) and three prequels (The Land (2001), The Well: David's Story (1995), and Song of the Trees (1975)) as well as two novellas (Mississippi Bridge (1990) and The Friendship (1987)). In the book, Taylor explores struggles of African Americans in 1930s Mississippi through the perspective of nine-year-old Cassie Logan. The novel contains several themes, including Jim Crow segregation, Black landownership, sharecropping, the Great Depression, and lynching.